It's VRA Awards Season! Call for Nominations 🥇
The VRA Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the 2023 Distinguished Service Award and the Nancy DeLaurier Award.
1) The VRA Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has made an outstanding career contribution to the field of visual resources and image management. Nominees must have achieved a level of distinction in the field either through leadership, research, or service to the profession. Nominees can also be considered for outstanding innovation, participation, or project management in visual resources.
2) The Nancy DeLaurier Award honors a single professional or a group of professionals for distinguished achievement in the field of visual resources. “Achievement” is measured by immediate impact, and may take the form of published works, oral presentations, digital humanities projects, open-source solutions, software development, technology applications, website creations, or other outstanding efforts.
We encourage the VRA membership to consider the people and the tools that have made an impact on your work in visual resources: research, presentations, projects, publications, tools, technologies, and any other outstanding efforts.
For inspiration, the recent, past recipients for the Distinguished Service Award are:
Jolene de Verges in 2022
Marcia Focht in 2021
Robb Detlefs in 2019
Recent Nancy Delaurier Award winners and projects are as follows:
2022
Lael Ensor-Bennett and Kendra Werst for exceptional leadership on the Equitable Action Committee and for founding the innovative and inclusive Community Hour Discussion Series
Asfaneh Najmabadi for founding, guiding, developing, and sustaining the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) Digital Archive
2021
Anna Bernhard and Heather Lowe for establishing and sustaining the Visual Resources Association’s Emerging Professionals and Students Group (VREPS)
Whom would you like to recognize for a specific contribution to our field? Please consider nominating a worthy colleague or specific achievement for these prestigious awards.
How to apply:
Detailed information is available at: https://www.vraweb.org/awards. The Awards Committee is here to support your efforts or answer any questions. Nominations should be submitted to the Awards Committee at vra.awards@gmail.com in the form of a dossier (all combined into one PDF). This dossier must include:
The nominee’s curriculum vitae
A cover letter of nomination describing how the nominee meets the criteria, written by the nominator(s)
Letters written in support of the nomination
Documentation in support of the nomination, if applicable
Electronic nominations via e-mail or a file hosting service such as Google Drive are preferred. Members of the VRA Awards Committee, upon reviewing submitted dossiers, make recommendations that are subject to approval by the VRA Executive Board.
The nomination letters and letters of support for the 2023 Distinguished Service Award and the 2023 Nancy DeLaurier Award are due by Thursday, August 10, 2023 and should be sent to: vra.awards@gmail.com.
Please contact Maureen Burns (moaburns@gmail.com) or any member of the Awards Committee if questions arise: Sarah Beck, Linda Callahan, Dawn Feavyour, Marcia Focht, Ann McShane, Summer Shetenhelm or Margaret Webster. We would be very happy to help with your ideas and the processes.
Notes:
Recommendations from the Awards Committee are subject to approval by the VRA Executive Board.
Current members of the VRA Awards Committee or the Executive Board should not write in support of nominations, nor should they be included in nominations.
Self-nominations are not accepted at this time.
